The Tony Award-winning Afro – Puerto Rican – American director tells the story of the Moor of Venice, classic Shakespeare with racial and religious themes that are surprisingly contemporary.
Delacorte Theater
Central Park, Manhattan
May 29 – June 24, 2018

¡ Get the Latin world !

June 2018 Calendar

June brings Father’s Day. It is National Caribbean American Heritage Month and New York Music Month.

Things to do in NYC June 1 - 3, 2018

Friday, June 1

The 2018 Governors Ball music festival is at Randall’s Island Park through Sunday.

The Blue Note Jazz Festival opens at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It’s at the Blue Note and other Manhattan venues nightly through June 30. The Latin part starts with Paquito D’Rivera on June 12.

The Balkans meets El Barrio with Raya Brass Band and Spanglish Fly at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens at 7 pm. $10 – $16

The New York Mets play the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10 pm. The giveaway is a Michael Conforto Replica Jersey.

LAST CHANCE to see New York City Ballet’s Balanchine Black & Whiteprogram at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center at 3 pm. From $30

Dance Argentine Tango at the VolvoTango outdoor milonga at Long Island City Landing in Long Island City, Queens in the late afternoon. Confirm the time at volvotango.com. Take the East River ferry to Hunters Point South from East 34th St, Wall St, or Brooklyn ferry stops. $10 suggested donation.

The 63rd Drama Desk Awards recognize excellence on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan at 8 pm. From $68.

Friday, June 8 ~ It’s Puerto Rican Weekend ¡Boricua!

The New Swing Sextet and Quintero’s Salsa Project end the Bryant Park Dance Party season with a Latin Festival of Cha Cha, Boogaloo and Salsa at Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan from 5 pm – 10 pm. FREE

Thursday, June 14 ~ Father’s Day Weekend

The World Cup 2018 opens with Russia vs Saudia Arabia at 11 am ET. The Group Stage runs through Thursday, June 28.

Dance Argentine Tango at the VolvoTango outdoor milonga at Long Island City Landing in Long Island City, Queens in the late afternoon. Confirm the time at volvotango.com. Take the East River ferry to Hunters Point South from East 34th St, Wall St, or Brooklyn ferry stops. $10 suggested donation.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs its Musical Icons program at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center 7 pm. $29 – $75. Tickets to the Ailey Spirit Gala after the show are $500 – $1,000.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs a Musical Icons program at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center at 2 pm. $29 – $159

The Summer Beach Series outdoor dance party is at La Marina Beach in Washington Heights, Manhattan from 3 – 10 pm.

Do the Central Park Tango around the Shakespeare Statue at the south end of The Mall in Central Park from 6 – 9:15 pm. $10 suggested donation.

Human Rights Watch Film FestivalWomen of the Venezuelan Chaos, Margarita Cadenas’ 2017 French film about the suffering of women as Venezuela becomes a failed state, is screening at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 3:30 pm. $10 – $15

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater closes its Lincoln Center season with a Musical Icons program at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center at 7:30 pm. $29 – $159

LAST CHANCE to see Paradise Blue written by Haitian – American Obie Award-winner Dominique Morisseau and directed by Puerto Rican – American Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson at the Signature Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan at 7:30 pm. From $30.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Women of the Venezuelan Chaos, Margarita Cadenas’ 2017 French film about the suffering of women as Venezuela becomes a failed state, screens at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 3:30 pm. $10 – $15

Monday, June 18

SUMMERSTAGE
The SummerStage City Parks Foundation Gala with dinner and a performance by Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and The Loving Mary Band honors French bank BNP Paribas at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park on Monday, June 18, 2018 from 6:30 – 10 pm. $1,500 – $50,000

NYC PRIDE
The Out Cinema series is screening Andrew Fleming’s comedy Ideal Home at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan at 7:30 pm. Doors 6:30 pm. $25 – $35

Tuesday, June 19

Chico Buarque de Hollanda, the legendary singer-songwriter, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 19, 1944.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Silence of Others, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s 2018 Spanish documentary about Spain’s 1977 amnesty for abuse during the Franco dictatorship, is screening at the Human Rights Watch Festival at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 6:30 pm. Pedro Almodóvar is Executive Producer. $10 – $15

Thursday, June 21

Celebrate the 2018 Summer Solstice, the shortest night in the northern hemisphere, and the longest night in the south of the earth.

The Kick-Off Reception for the LGBT Latino art exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College in Manhattan’s Upper East Side from 3 – 4:30 pm. The exhibition is at 205 Hudson Gallery in Tribeca, Manhattan through August 19, 2018.

Dance Argentine Tango at the VolvoTango outdoor milonga at Long Island City Landing in Long Island City, Queens in the late afternoon. Confirm the time at volvotango.com. Take the East River ferry to Hunters Point South from East 34th St, Wall St, or Brooklyn ferry stops. $10 suggested donation.

NYC PRIDE
Masterbeat Masterbuilt turns the Hammerstein Ballroom into a multi-level club as the party set is constructed around you in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 10 pm. From $120

Sunday, June 24

Single tickets for the Metropolitan Opera 2018 – 2019 Season go on sale today.

NYC PRIDE
Femme Fatale is the closing Sunday rooftop party for over 1,000+ women from around the country at Hudson Terrace in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan on Sunday, June 24, 2018 from 4 – 10 pm. From $30

Dance Argentine Tango at the VolvoTango outdoor milonga on Pier 45 (West 10th St) in Manhattan’s West Village in the late afternoon. Confirm the time at volvotango.com.

NYCFC plays Major League Soccer against Toronto FC at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx at 5 pm. From $30

Last chance to see the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park presentation of Othello directed by Tony Award-winning, Afro-Puerto Rican playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park at 8 pm. Free

Thursday, June 28

Dance Argentine Tango at the VolvoTango outdoor milonga at Long Island City Landing in Long Island City, Queens in the late afternoon. Confirm the time at volvotango.com. Take the East River ferry to Hunters Point South from East 34th St, Wall St, or Brooklyn ferry stops. $10 suggested donation.